He is currently an Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and was previously on the faculty of University of Chicago from 2006 to 2016.

Prof. Linnainmaa is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His recent publications include “Retail financial advice: Does one size fit all?” in the Journal of Finance (2017) and “The history of the cross section of stock returns” in the Review of Financial Studies (2017). He was awarded the CFA Society & Hillsdale Canadian Investment Research Award in 2015 and the Marshall E. Blume Prize in 2016.